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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"Laos"”.
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Reporting Laos: The U.S. Media and the "Secret" War in Laos: 1955-1975
… was involved in covert paramilitary efforts in Laos. Congress did not approve the Laos conflict, which pitted tens of thousands of American-hired ethnic mercenaries against the North Vietnamese army and featured a massive bombing campaign by U. S. aircraft. Yet approximately 500 Americans were …
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Transnational Migration and Political Exile in Laos
… and mechanisms that govern policymaking. Laos, in particular, is a small country located in Southeast Asia that has recently gained prominence in spheres of international development and the global marketplace. Since the mid-1980s, leaders of the state have implemented economic reform in …
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Engagement of Youth in Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Laos
… youth engagement in agripreneurship, using Laos as a case study, as it is a developing country in Asia with a highly rural and young population that is transitioning to commercial agriculture, agribusiness and agripreneurship. A review of the literature identified that behavioural sciences …
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Perspective d'un développement rural durable : le cas des Hmongs du Laos
… sain. Depuis une quarantaine d'années, le Laos a connu de nombreux bouleversements. Des groupes minoritaires, dont les Hmongs, ont subi les contrecoups des changements socio-politiques et économiques. Les Hmongs, qui habitent les régions montagneuses et qui pratiquent l'agriculture …
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Minorities and the construction of a nation in post-socialist Laos
… I then briefly review some pertinent events in Laos' recent history. I next explain the reasons for my choice of a certain terminology. In a third section, I introduce and justify my methodology.In Chapter Two, I introduce and discuss the theoretical framework and studies on Lao nationalism. I …
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Translating Foreign Ideas into Domestic Practices : Pharmaceutical Policies in Laos and Vietnam
… implementation. The National Drug Policies in Laos and Vietnam are studied in order to identify factors facilitating or restraining policy processes—and to discuss the effects of diffusion. In the 1980s reforms were initiated leading to far-reaching economic liberalisation in Laos and Vietnam. …
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Women's participation in community development projects: the case of Khmu women in Laos
… the Khmu is the second largest ethnic group in Laos, they are also the poorest. Throughout the history of Laos, the Khmu have lacked political power, education and a role in administration. Consequently, they have lagged behind in socio-economic development. While Lao women in general show …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… the importance of physical culture in modern Laos, and the variety of local, regional and global forces that have shaped it. 'Body work' practices, including sport, physical education and military training, and the ideas on which they are based, have placed gender and the body at the centre of …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… the importance of physical culture in modern Laos, and the variety of local, regional and global forces that have shaped it. 'Body work' practices, including sport, physical education and military training, and the ideas on which they are based, have placed gender and the body at the centre of …
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Explosive remnants of war: a case study of explosive ordnance disposal in Laos, 1974-2013
… the plethora of UneXploded Ordnance (UXO) in Laos, to clarify the performance of post-conflict humanitarian aid and development until 2012. This is achieved through case study field work in Laos. The time period studied is from 1954, the beginning of the political background to the war in …
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Farm-level bureaucrats in action (and inaction) : the distribution of veterinary services in Laos and Cambodia
… veterinary service providers and farmers in Laos and Cambodia. I hypothesize that the negotiation, implementation, and enforcement of informal service contracts entail economic and social transaction costs that can distort provider incentives, thereby affecting the quantity, quality, and …
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Three Attempts at Cold War Neutralization: Its Success in Austria and Laos and its Failure in Vietnam
… the neutralizations of Austria (in 1955) and of Laos (in 1962). Despite very different world orders in those two countries at those times, the weaker superpowers in each contest, the Soviets in Austria and the Americans in Laos, took very similar actions. They followed the same three-stage …
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Various forms of colonialism : the social and spatial reorganisation of the Brao in southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia
… and Champasak, in the southern-most part of Laos; and Ratanakiri and Stung Treng, in the northeastern-most part of Cambodia. Divided broadly into eight different sub-groups—the Jree, Kavet, Hamong, Ka-nying, Lun, Umba, Kreung and Brao Tanap—the Brao are, historically, swidden cultivators …
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Language, Orthography and Buddhist Manuscript Culture of the Tai Nuea - an apocryphal jātaka text in Mueang Sing, Laos
… Nuea village near Mueang Sing in northwestern Laos, copied in 1935 and entitled Pukthanusati (Pali buddhānussati) ‘the Recollection of the Buddha.’ It is written in the Tai Nuea language and Lik Tho Ngok or ‘Bean Sprout’ script, and is in the form of a jātaka or narrative story of a former …
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The form and use of social capital among foreign direct investors in their interactions with locals in Northern Laos
… it has focused on the emerging market of Laos – and it has in particular sought to identify the form and use of social capital in the northern part of the country. This thesis will present the rationale behind the research, the planning that took place before the fieldwork commenced, and …
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Hydraulic modelling and flood inundation mapping in a bedrock-confined anabranching network: the Mekong River in the Siphandone Wetlands, Laos
… river network, located within<br/>southern Laos. The network can be separated into: (i) the upper river network constituted by<br/>two bifurcations and one confluence with an interpolated bathymetry based on soundings of<br/>cross-sections along the navigation channels; and, (ii) the …
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A Geographic Study Of The Laotian Hydropower Sector
<p>The country of Laos is a developing nation that is geographically endowed with significant hydropower assets. Hydropower represents one of very few quick and profitable, exportable resources for Laos as a least developed country, and is seen as the avenue of escape from poverty for the nation. …
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